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Since 1930, fuel economy has climbed 30% because of the new high-compression engines. Acceleration in the low-and middle-speed ranges is almost twice as fast: a 1946 model took 24 seconds to go from 10 to 60 m.p.h., the average 1955 model does it easily in less than...
The Air Force has good reason to speed its heavy-press program along. At war's end Russia dismantled a 33,000-ton press in Germany and shipped it off for work behind the curtain. Furthermore, the Russians, with the help of German technicians, are believed to be hard...
But the most friendly employees of all were some Ivy League types in dinner jackets, who stood on pulpits in one corner of the Armory to sermonize about the so-called "dream cars of tomorrow." General Motors was giving America the future as it had given the past--designed by...
The shorter works which filled out the program, a sonata by Johann Christian Bach, and Hinde mith's Sonate (1938) were delightful and superbly performed. At first hearing, the Hindemith revealed a compression of structure in which a few, simple ideas receives coherent, sometimes fascinating development, though within quite limited...
In Knock on Wood. Danny tries to give himself more room to whirl around in. Melvin Frank and Norman Panama wrote their script - and Kaye's talented wife Sylvia Fine contributed the specialty numbers - somewhat in the style of an aria with a few optional passages scattered along the...